Sentences with phrase «monumental pieces of steel»

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Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.

Chris Burden, another artist known for pushing his body to the limits with his often life - threatening performance pieces, is represented here by his TV Commercials series (1973 - 77) and a loop of three magnificent Beam Drop videos (1984 - 2009), in which he creates monumental sculptures by dropping immense steel beams from a crane into a pit of wet cement.

One of the most critically acclaimed artists of the 1970s, Jennifer Bartlett developed a signature grid - based approach to creating monumental modular paintings — often built out of graph - paper - gridded steel - and - enamel plates that she would then compose on in enamel — that achieved The Clock - like success in the form of Rhapsody, a nearly 1,000 - plate piece that debuted at Paula Cooper in 1976.

One of the few female sculptors of her generation to have created the kind of monumental steel, bronze, and stone works more often associated with men, Pepper has been making site - specific, freestanding abstract pieces around the world for more than five decades, including numerous public commissions.

At the time Oldenburg was just beginning his transition from his oversize soft sculptures of the 60s to monumental fabricated steel pieces that could survive outside.

His large, floor - based works make use of a variety of materials, from wood to rope, though he is best known for his monumental rusted steel pieces.

Visitors to the English Gardens can also encounter an over-sized snake ring in polished concrete by Kathleen Ryan (François Ghebaly, Los Angeles); a large marble form by Tony Cragg (Lisson Gallery, London); an anthropomorphic bronze by William Turnbull (Offer Waterman, London); a work from the «Signal» series by Takis (Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp); Dominique Stroobant's elegant geometric composition (Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp); a new solar - powered light and sound piece by Haroon Mirza (Lisson Gallery, London), developing from his intervention at the Museum Tinguely, Basel, earlier this year; a large painted and lacquered metal piece by Gary Webb (The Approach, London); an oversized beaten steel shoe by Aaron Angel (Rob Tufnell, London); a new ceramic «totem pole» by Jesse Wine (Limoncello, London); a colony of rabbits made from plastic bags by Leo Fitzmaurice (The Sunday Painter, London) and Seung - taek Lee's monumental balloon model of the earth, which will gradually deflate across the course of the fair (Gallery Hyundai, Seoul).

Visitors to the exhibition can also see Serra's monumental Cor - Ten steel sculpture My Curves Are Not Mad (1987) in the Nasher Garden, as well as his Cor - Ten steel prop piece Inverted House of Cards (1969 - 70) in the gallery alongside Serra's prints.

The pieces are monumental and imposing works of granite and corten steel, commanding their space.